Rebor: 1/35 Scale Carnotaurus sastrei "Crimson King"

[Cloud the Dinosaur King]

I think it's one of the possibilities. I seem to remember, not 100% sure, that Andrea Cau once hypothesized that Carnotaurus arms weren't even visible in life, just a kind of residual bony structure under skin. In all honesty though, arm articulation is the last thing you need on a Carnotaurus figure.

Fair point. I don't really like the arm articulation either. I was just pointing that out.

[Loon]

Now, I'm no expert, but wouldn't the fourth finger also not have a claw, and be covered by skin?

[tanystropheus]

That's a fair point, Carnotaurus arms were likely just vestigial.

You have to remember though, even though Carnotaurus's arms were vestigial doesn't mean it couldn't move them. In fact, abelisaurid arms had more flexibility than in any other dinosaur species. They could stick their arms out to the side causing some to believe that Carnotaurus and other abelisaurids had decorations on their arms. Here is an example of that:

I can't unsee this. You've just made the most comedic of dinosaurs that much goofier. The only thing that can top this is a T-rex covered in

[Loon]

I can't unsee this. You've just made the most comedic of dinosaurs that much goofier. The only thing that can top this is a T-rex covered in

Hey...none of that, you could get bludgeoned some places for such heresy.

[Silvanusaurus]

I know stylisation is subjective, but it does not look good to me at all. Almost every aspect of it is awkward, and not in the way a real Carnotaurus looks weird, but just aesthetically awkward and poorly judged. I dont care too much about scientific accuracy in a figure like this, yet while the disney design was far removed from reality, at least it actually looked cool, this doesnt even have that in its favour. It looks like a dated theme park animatronic of a Carnotaurus; standing looking static and stagnant; lifeless save for the unsettlingly mechanical jolting from side to side of the aging mechanism its neck; groaning and whirring unpleasantly and making the children feel uncomfortable.
Rebor is starting to feel like the unwanted uncle who's let himself go, but still thinks he's a hip young stud despite all his jokes and references being stale relics of the mid 90's that just come across as sad. There is also an insidiously off putting odour when he enters the room.
Dont take my disdain too seriously. 

[tanystropheus]

Rebor is starting to feel like the unwanted uncle who's let himself go, but still thinks he's a hip young stud despite all his jokes and references being stale relics of the mid 90's that just come across as sad. There is also an insidiously off putting odour when he enters the room.
Dont take my disdain too seriously. 

I guess my taste is botched because I kind of want this unwanted avuncular beast of sorts.

[Shonisaurus]

For me the carnotaurus has articulated arms as I see in the photos is too. I can accept articulated jaws but articulated arms is an outrage. I have the bad experience of the deinonychus whose arms do come out yes or yes and honestly those figures do not convince me, I prefer to buy other figures like PNSO, more expensive but at least only with the articulated jaw.

In that sense we already have other companies of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals with multiple articulated and cheaper parts of the body.

[Victoria's Cantina]

Rebor is starting to feel like the unwanted uncle who's let himself go, but still thinks he's a hip young stud despite all his jokes and references being stale relics of the mid 90's that just come across as sad. There is also an insidiously off putting odour when he enters the room.
Dont take my disdain too seriously. 

Have you ever considered taking up writing? LOL

[MLMjp]

I must say. I am disappointed.
The first color picture which was taken from above the figure make it look like it had a really vibrant color scheme with shiny black and red.

The final result is nothing like I expected, the red is extremely dull and tone down, and the cream, oh the cream, it kills it completely.

You know, knowing that Rebor likes awesomebro dinos I was hopping that they will give this guy a very vibrant and striking paint job that will give him a fearsome appearance, like they did with their T.rex and Acro.

But the final result is dull, and even ignoring the "fearsome look" factor I still think that the color scheme is rather plain and not well executed.

I do like the sculpt of the figure though, not without it´s accuracy issues, but still. And to be honest, I don´t really mind the articulated arms.

[Silvanusaurus]

To be fair, if it had a button on its back that made the articulated arms spin around really fast, I might actually be interested in getting this.

[Takama]

I must say, I like the way this Carnotarus looks, but i doubt that i would be getting one, due to the fact taht there trying to make it a halfway point between a toy and a Statue, and all it does is make it more expensive then it NEEDS to be.   Plus the base is lame. Relly REBOR?  your going to make this walk on lava like its some demonic version of *****?

[tanystropheus]

The final result is nothing like I expected, the red is extremely dull and tone down, and the cream, oh the cream, it kills it completely.

I disagree.
One can never have too much cream.

[tanystropheus]

I must say, I like the way this Carnotarus looks, but i doubt that i would be getting one, due to the fact taht there trying to make it a halfway point between a toy and a Statue, and all it does is make it more expensive then it NEEDS to be.   Plus the base is lame. Relly REBOR?  your going to make this walk on lava like its some demonic version of *****?

The base is comical, but I like it for that reason.
You are right, there is an in-between Dinosauria type vibe.
Demonic? I think the Carno is supposed to look demonic. Look at the cute little horns on its head

[stargatedalek]

It's clearly hardened lava, or potentially even coals, both of which can be walked on. So I really don't see why that's an issue.

That being said, I think REBOR has made much better bases in the past. My only issue with this base is that it's still rather plain despite being so different from the others. No charred bones or trees, not even some plates shifting revealing lava or embers beneath. This base could have easily been cool enough on its own to make me buy the figure, but it's just not doing enough.

I actually really like the colour scheme, did no one else notice it's based on a blue tongued skink?

I probably wouldn't be interested in a Carnotaurus accurate or not, but the only issues I really have with the sculpt are the super bendy tail and the very visible indentations of the skull. While I agree articulated arms are more or less pointless since they will change very little about the pose when they aren't very prominent anyway I don't think they detract from it. They wouldn't be any less visible if they were molded as separate pieces and glued in place permanently.

[Bucklander]

It's clearly hardened lava, or potentially even coals, both of which can be walked on. So I really don't see why that's an issue.

... the only issues I really have with the sculpt are the super bendy tail and the very visible indentations of the skull...

I agree with both remarks. The indented eyes really bother me. They are ridiculous! I'm wondering how successful I'd be at customizing them. I just couldn't live with it the way it is.

[Shadowknight1]

IF I got this, I'd probably glue the arms in place lol.  As it is though, I'm probably gonna stick with the Papo.  Carnotaurus isn't one of my absolute favorites, so I'm not gonna rush out to buy another one.

Though I'd be tempted to buy that base by itself.  Then buy a smallish Anakin Skywalker figure and make him look like he's burning on the lava.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

i'm about full up on carnotaurus myself,  Safari, Sideshow, Papo...I even have a few Disney versions, Kaiyodo and McVey's Carno... i would like to have a really nice Majungasaurus though.

[Dino Scream3232]

I actually really like the colour scheme, did no one else notice it's based on a blue tongued skink?

Great observation. Looks like the pattern of Tiliqua multifasciata  the centralian blue tongue skink. Now I feel like I need to get this. I've been keeping and breeding blue tongues for a few years now. Think the blue tongue Carnotaurus will be a center piece in my skink room.

[Derek.McManus]

It's nice to see that Rebor over came the production difficulties and got the figure into production.

[empire3569]

Preorder is up on BBTS, only $39.99 http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=RBR10030&mode=retail

They said it is the same size as their Ceratosaurus, so price wise this seems pretty reasonable